Faith Brook
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: York, England, UK
Birthday: February 16, 1922
Deathday: March 11, 2012
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Gender: Female
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Saint Paul
Overview: A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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Eye of the Needle
Overview: Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Overview: A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-16
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To Sir, with Love
Overview: A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-14
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Overview: An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-10
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Across the Bridge
Overview: In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Finger of Guilt
Overview: Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's daughter after which he quickly rises through the studio ranks. Then the letters begin to appear from a lovesick American actress who wants to know why he has thrown her over.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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All Passion Spent
Overview: his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-09
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Wicked as They Come
Overview: A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-22
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Man in the Shadow
Overview: The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Overview: Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-08
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View from the Loft
Overview: Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-08
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Bloodbath
Overview: Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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The 39 Steps
Overview: In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-07
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Mothertime
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-28
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Walk a Crooked Path
Overview: Set in an exclusive boy's school, about a man who plans to kill off his wealthy teacher wife by encouraging her to drink and pushing her into suicide. To assist him he recruits a young student who will claim that he was sexually assaulted by her. (from: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/390627)
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-31
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Cream in My Coffee
Overview: Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-02
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We Shall See
Overview: The controlling wife of a pilot wants her husband to quit flying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Uneasy Terms
Overview: Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-06
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North Sea Hijack
Overview: When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-18
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Overview: At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-29
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The Finest Hours
Overview: A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-29
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No Time for Love
Overview: An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Adélaïde
Overview: A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-07
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The Sea Wolves
Overview: A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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Jungle Book
Overview: Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-03
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The Weather in the Streets
Overview: Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-30
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Mrs. Dalloway
Overview: Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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Suspicion
Overview: A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Miss Beatty's Children
Overview: An idealistic English school teacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a strong-willed missionary, devoted to saving young girls from being sold into temple prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Overview: A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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AKA
Overview: In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something of himself, he assumes another identity and manages to enter high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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In the Steps of a Dead Man
Overview: When a young soldier suddenly dies, his parents and his girlfriend are naturally shocked and upset by the news. Several months later a young man turns up at the parent's house claiming to be their dead son's best friend. They welcome him and invite him to stay for a while. They also introduce him to their son's girlfriend and she is similarly impressed by him. It is later discovered, however, that he is not what he appears to be and may have had a hand in their son's death.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-27
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A Choice of Coward: The Vortex
Overview: Nicky Lancaster must deal with the problem of his youth-obsessed ageing socialite mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-24
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